1984 at the Almeida
“Those who enjoy the vicarious thrills of reality TV shows and ever-present social media might well watch it and shiver, knowingly.”
Browsing: The Culturist
Rigoletto
With new Music Director Mark Wigglesworth at the helm at the ENO, the opening of Christopher Alden’s production of Rigoletto was more electrifying than typical first nights…
Attack on Titan
Steve Thompson is a man of acquired taste and a taste for the curious. In…
Britten’s Peter Grimes
Matt Hutchinson reviews the ENO’s revival of Britten’s bleak masterpiece…
Ellen Terry with Eileen Atkins
“Atkins captivates the theatre from start to finish with a robust, intelligent and occasionally impish performance…”
12 Years a Slave
What else is there to say about 12 Years a Slave? Steve McQueen’s career since…
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
The Royal Academy makes a successful break from its usual formula as it invites seven contemporary architects to transform its Beaux-Arts galleries…
Emilia Fox in Rapture, Blister, Burn
Wearing skin-tight jeans and swigging beer from the bottle, Fox plays Catherine as a sultry yet uptight woman…
The Duchess of Malfi
It’s always exciting to visit a new theatre in London, and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is one of the most ambitious that the capital’s seen in years – quite probably since the opening of its stablemate, the Globe.
2013 in Film
Tom Bangay takes a look back at the top ten films of 2013…
Manon at the Royal Opera House
Whilst it may hark back to those heady days of the Belle Époque, the moral of Massenet’s 1884 opera is as relevant today as it was to the nineteenth century Parisian society…
Daumier: Visions of Paris
As the RA’s critically-acclaimed celebration of the French visionary enters its final fortnight, Harry Chapman makes a late call to the exhibition the Evening Standard called “an aesthetic boxer’s blow to the heart”…